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in 2013, militants blew up a bus carrying female university students in Quetta. The aim was to intimidate girls and their families into knowing and adhering to their low position in society.entrenched cultural belief that females are supposed to be subservient(submissive) to men

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai – Her story also serves as a gruesome reminder of the horror of honour killing imposed on women who do not conform to social normsMalala Yousafazi, native of one of the most conservative regions of Pakistan, and co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, has been advocating fearlessly across the world for girl’s educational rights, even in the face of extremely difficult circumstances in her home country where gunmen attempted to assassinate her in 2012 for defying orders not to go to school.

Female genital mutilation in Africa and Middle east still continue even though their are attempt to educate and change people's mindset.At least 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation. In most of these cases, the majority of girls were cut before age five. In these instances, proper anesthesia is rarely used or is ineffective, causing severe pain. Female circumcision is a violation of the rights of girls and women. The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution banning it because the practice is harmful and a serious threat to women. Because it is often carried out without consent, and forcibly against a girl’s will, it also contravenes treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Saudi Arabian woman continue to be denied the right to, up till recently, the right to drive.The denial of access to public areas and facilities such as sport arenas are also actively enforced in countries like Iran and Afghanistan, demonstrating suppression of the simplest woman's rights and freedomSaudi Arabia held a historic election for municipal councils where for the first time, women were given the right to vote and to run for office. Moreover, today, Saudi women are obtaining access to areas which were previously forbidden to them. Some are now lawyers, pharmacist and even appointed to head the stock exchange or a large bank.

Female politicians like current Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Us secretary of state Hillary Clinton have demonstrated growing political prominence of woman in the modern world.As of June 2016, only 22.8 percent of all national parliamentarians were women. There is growing evidence that women in positions of leadership and political decision-making improve the systems in which they work.Halimah Yacob is Singapore's president

Importance of woman's role in family and society have been given increase recognition today via aid and governance in developing countriesNGOs and governments have been working together in countries from Bangladesh and Ethiopia to realise and recognise the girl effecttargeting the potential of 600million adolescent girls worldwide in lifting themselves and their families out of povertyMicro-credit Grameen Bank which Bangladesh specifically targets women as it recognise in empowering woman to break out of poverty

One of Japan’s most prestigious medical schools has admitted deliberately altering entrance exam scores for more than a decade to restrict the number of female students and ensure more men became doctors.It said similar manipulations had occurred for years because the school wanted fewer female doctors, since it anticipated they would shorten or halt their careers after having children.

More than 1,000 woman applied for 100 spots in a Singapore NS boot camp promising a golden opportunity to experience NS activities such as using a rifle, eating combat rations and going on a route march.

Women form 70% of the world's poor and comprise of 2/3 of the world illiterate population.Moreover, women only own 1% of the property, earn 10% of all income.

Iranian photographer Parisa was recently told she wasn't allowed inside the Vatani Stadium to cover a men's football game. She still become the first female photographer in Iran to cover a men's football match by taking pictures from a nearby rooftop.

By achieving universal primary and secondary education attainability in the adult population, it could be possible to lift more than 420 million people out of poverty. In China, girls have a seven percent higher infant mortality rate than boys, and in India, a study conducted in the first decade of the 2000s found that the risk of death between the ages of one and five was 75 percent higher for girls than for boys.Many people in India abort their female fetuses or leave newborn female babies to die because of their desire to have male children

For example, Niloufar Ardalan, the Captain of the Iranian Women’s Soccer team was banned from taking part in the Women’s Futsal Championship of Malaysia in 2015 by her husband as it was in violation of Islamic Law.

Honor killing continues to claim many female victims in places like Iraq and PakistanThe practice of “honour killing” as a form of punishment in many Middle-Eastern countries such as Afghanistan where women are subject to the brutality of honour killing which penalises women for bringing shame and dishonour to their families.Ms Baloch became a household name in Pakistan after posting sometimes raunchy photographs, comments and videos on social media sites, on which she had hundreds of thousands of followers.The 26-year-old was well aware of the opposition she faced in the conservative Muslim country but was unapologetic.Consequently, Qandeel Balcoh was killed by her brother in 2016 because she had supposedly brought dishonor upon her familyThe controversial murder of a Pakistani model in 2016 as a result of honour killing is a gruesome reminder that many women are subject to brutality, violence and harsh punishment for dressing up and expressing their feminine identity in public.

there has been a growing number of campaigns, such as the Right to Pee campaign and Red brigades, to help victims of violence, to fight social stigma and to pressure the government to enforce stricter laws as well as to promote equality between men and women. heforshe campaignengage men as agents of change by encouraging them to take actions against inequalities faced by women

According to Harvard Review, in the US, women still make up only four per cent of Fortune 500 CEOs, and only 19 per cent of Congress. They are rarely leaders in high-paying, cutting-edge financial services and technology companies.In Singapore, although a roughly equal number of women enter tertiary institutions as men, there is a fall-off of employed women in their 30s because of child-rearing and care-giving. Women are also still under-represented at senior management levels and board seats.In 2013, less than 10 per cent of SGX-listed companies have women on their boards. Singaporean working women continue to bear the bulk of household responsibilities, 70 per cent, in fact. Moreover, in the matter of care-giving, the stark contrast between the government mandated maternity leave – 4 months of paid leave – as opposed to two weeks paternity leave ironically reinforces the perception of the women being the care-giver, compromising her chance of an equal competition at the workplace.In Singapore, women earn a staggering S$640,000 less than their male counterparts over a 40-year careerWe regularly meet women who are discriminated against because of their motherhood or pregnancy status, women who are harassed at work, and women who are passed over for a promotion because of stereotypes that dictate what women “can” achieve.Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/gender-equality-equal-pay-singapore-work-cpf-life-savings-10877958

Religious discrimination

Displacement and violence against the RohingyaRohingya are considered to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and are not classified as a ethnic group with Myanmar citizenshipThey are not given civil rights in MyanmarThey are denied of citizenship, rights to travel, education, food and medicines.Burmese officials, community leaders, and Buddhist monks organised ethnic Arakanese backed by state security forces to conduct coordinated attacks on Muslim Neighbourhoods and villages in year 2012 to terrorise them to relocate.

Genocide in RwandaIn early 1990, Hutu extremists within Rwanda's political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country's increasing social, economic, and politics pressures.Hutus extremist launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi population

In a turbulent world fraught with religious fundamentalism, religious prejudice will continue to have its stronghold in society due to worsening Islamophobia.The multiple terrorist attacks have heavily tared the image of Muslims in many European countries. To preserve personal safety, stereotyping of and backlash towards Muslims is prevalent.Not limited to Europe, this global islamophobic phenomenon has affected America as well. Protests against the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero of the collapsed World Trade towers in New York City. The islamophobic zeitgeist of our times is perfectly illustrated by Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, from predominantly Muslim countries.

There's been a 26% rise in anti-muslim attacks in the UK over the pervious years, with the proportion of offline abuse increasing by 31%.Experts put the rise is due to the large number of trigger incidents in 2017, such as terrorist attacks in London and Manchester